At 10:59 AM 3/8/2005 -0500, Bill Connelly wrote:
My landlord in the 70's claimed that my 80 meter dipole was the cause of his burnt toast every morning. It brought "electrical waves into the building" It was only after his enlightened son interceded on my behalf that he purchased a new toaster.
Interesting. in 1971 i bought a quad and had it on a 8ft section of tower in the back yard putting it together . i worked out of town and only got to work on it a few hours during the weekends. it was up for about 3 weeks the guy across the street came over mad as could be . told me there was NO WAY i was putting up that big tv antenna and suck all the tv stations out of the air so he could not get any hi hi.. true story..
73 Tony QBE ZUT DE WA4JQS ANTHONY W. (Tony) DePrato WA4JQS EXTRA - HEAVY Since 1962 CQ DX HALL OF FAME # 35 A1-OP FISTS # 10573 South Sandwich Island Dxpedition Group CALLS HELD: WA4JQS/ZS1, WA4JQS/KC4, WA4JQS/4K1 ZD8JQS, V31SS, VP8BZL, VP8SSI, 3Y0PI

